Sentences with phrase «climate change to date»

Which is why it's clear that anthropogenic climate change to date can not be held responsible for large scale loss of species, because global warming is so recent in its inception.

Yet, the Arctic has seen the biggest impacts from climate change to date with sea ice vanishing and temperatures rising faster there than anywhere else on Earth.

The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on Sunday night, is both sweeping in scope and staggering for its unprecedented details on the impacts of global climate change to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural systems.

«I do not support the lack of evidence for intense hurricanes in climate changes to date,» said Holland in reaction to the IPCC draft.

Incomplete and inconsistent record keeping make it very difficult to assess how local thunderstorms and tornadoes in the United States have been affected by climate change to date.

Grist said Obama gave his his «longest and most forceful statements» on climate change to date in this year's speech.

It is also an opportunity to speak to the robustness of acquired knowledge that's withstood the test of time and scrutiny (e.g., 4 IPCC assessments of climate change to date), although perhaps still a work in progress.

While the expectation for bouts of rainfall 20 - 30 % heavier than today takes into account the contribution from climate change to date, it largely reflects what we can expect to see within the bounds of natural variability — not future climate change.

This title is part of the America's Climate Choices project, the National Research Council's most comprehensive study of climate change to date.

«The level of change we have observed is quite astonishing considering we have only experienced a relatively small amount of climate change to date,» said Dr. James Watson from the Wildlife Conservation Society and University of Queensland, lead author of the study.

The final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report (AR5), set to be released this weekend, is the most comprehensive evaluation of climate change to date.